Word: epictetus
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...EPICTETUS Tom Wolfe borrows from him, and 1st century Stoic's books are rereleased. Luckily, no royalties...
...conservative intellectual who quoted the Stoic philosopher Epictetus to the press last week ("A life not put to the test is not worth living"), Stockdale has spent most of his post-Vietnam career in a succession of academic and think-tank jobs. He has taught at the Naval War College and Stanford University, and was president at the Citadel. Since 1981 he has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution, an independent conservative research center that is located on the Stanford campus. Stockdale also served on the board of the ultra-right-wing Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois, from...